Visiting professor. Department of Biology, UC San Diego. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lin Chao. Topic: game theory applications to the analysis of mixed viral infections.
June 2005–October 2009. Head of the Stress Biology Department. IBMCP, Valencia.
January 2011–February 2014. Head of the Virology Department. IBMCP, Valencia.

Published more than 210 peer-reviewed papers and more than 250 contributions to conferences in the fields of Evolutionary Genetics, Virology and Systems Biology. Supervisor of 19 PhD theses. PI for 18 grants (including from EMBO, HFSP, The John Templeton Foundation, and EU FP7) and research contracts with industry.

Member of the American Society for the Study of Evolution, European Society of Evolutionary Biologists (ESEB), and Society of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infections Disease. Member of the ESEB Council (2003-2007, 2011-2019).

Past or current Associated Editor of American Naturalist; BMC Evolutionary Biology; Evolution; Frontiers in Microbiology; Infection, Genetics and Evolution; International Journal of Evolutionary Biology; Journal of Evolutionary Biology; Open Genomics Journal; Open Parasitology Journal; Open Virology Journal; PLoS Pathogens (occasional guest editor); Proceedings of the Royal Society B; Virus Evolution (co-editor in chief). Academic member of Faculty of 1000and the Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology.

Awarded as EMBO Young Investigator in 2004. Elected EMBO Member in 2011.